Overview

This multi-disciplinary volume seeks to understand Asian Diasporas by examining the wide range of cultural documents which play a role in constructing diasporic identities. Drawing on theories, data and texts from literature, media, urban studies, popular culture, the military, and related documents, the essays in this volume examine the key issues involved in the construction of Asian diasporic identities. The main focus is on the cultural documents, representations and acts of constructions pertaining to the South and East Asian diasporic movements, and on the problematic negotiations of such essentially hybrid and conflictual identities.

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This is a wonderful and timely volume, with fine essays that range from being informative, insightful to downright provocative. The book not only puts Asian diasporas on the global map from a decidedly Asia-centred point of view; it is also a welcome cri Asian Diasporas is an exciting departure from Ethnic Studies notions of diaspora. Robbie Goh and Shawn Wong have assembled leading Asia-based scholars to chart the carnivalesque and fluid dimensions of postcolonial diasporic cultures. Interrogating cultu

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Robbie B. H. Goh is Associate Professor and Deputy Head of the Department of English Language and Literature, National University of Singapore. He has published widely on Global Cultures and Asian studies, including Sparks of Grace The Story of Methodism in Asia, and Singapore Space and the Dialogics of Culture (forthcoming). Award-wining novelist Shawn Wong is the author of Homebase and American Knees, and editor or editor of six anthologies of literature, including the landmark Aiiieeeee! An Anthology of Asian American Writers. He is Professor in the Department of English at the University of Washington, and Director of the University's Honors Programme.

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